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Three days to go - three headaches remain

Reuters US Online Report Sports News 12 hours ago

VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Three days away from the opening Ceremony of the Vancouver Winter Olympics, organizers were wrestling on Tuesday with three niggling headaches they hope will disappear once the Games are under way. Unseasonably mild weather causing snow shortages is the ...

Organizers can't wait for 1st Canadian gold

AP News 14 hours ago

Vancouver organizers awaiting 1st Canadian gold _ and men's hockey win Like most of the entire country, Vancouver organizers are waiting for the moment when Canada finally wins its first Olympic gold medal on home soil. Leading the medals standings and topping ...

Canada to take injection site case to top court

AP Features 15 hours ago

Canada's government said Tuesday it will ask the country's Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling allowing North America's first injection site for intravenous drug users to stay open. The Vancouver site, where people can inject illegal drugs with clean needles ...

Doping lab already testing dozens of samples

AP News 16 hours ago

State of the art Olympic doping lab already testing samples ahead of Vancouver Games Vancouver's state-of-the-art doping lab already has tested more than 200 blood and urine samples from Olympic athletes, and there have been no positives. Dr. Christiane Ayotte, the scientist ...

Hasta La Pista, Baby...Arnie lights up the Games

Reuters US Online Report Sports News yesterday

VANCOUVER (Reuters) - The Olympic torch relay just got bigger, much bigger. At 106 days, the pre-Vancouver Winter Games run weighs in as the longest domestic relay in Olympic history and to help get it across the finish line ... Arnie is ...

US Olympians begin checking in at Vancouver

AP News yesterday

Big and small, US Olympians sort through the rewards as they arrive in Vancouver Noelle Pikus-Pace gasped as she glanced around the hotel ballroom to see the mountains of boxes piled around and overflowing with red-white-and-blue U.S. Olympic gear. "This is amazing," ...

Whatever the weather, US moguls team is ready

AP News yesterday

US mogul skiers say they're ready for Cypress Mountain whatever the weather Cypress Mountain passed a major test Monday, as freestyle skiers completed their first pre-Olympic practice sessions and Winter Olympic organizers kept dumping snow on competition courses in unseasonably warm weather. ...

Consider yourself warned, IOC's Rogge tells Russia

Reuters US Online Report Sports News yesterday

VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Russia has been warned to get its anti-doping act together days before the start of the Vancouver Olympics after several of their athletes have been busted for taking banned drugs in the past months. Russia, who will host the ...

Can Vancouver life get any better with Games?

Reuters US Online Report Sports News yesterday

VANCOUVER (Reuters) - Cities that take on the gargantuan task of hosting Olympic Games contend that the costly investment leads to a better quality of life for its denizens for years to come. But the 2010 Winter Games host Vancouver is already ...

Schwarzenegger, Coe to run Vancouver torch relay

AP News yesterday

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sebastian Coe to run on final day of Vancouver Olympic torch relay Arnold Schwarzenegger will hand the Olympic torch off to Sebastian Coe on Friday morning, the day of the opening ceremony at the Vancouver Games. The California governor and ...

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